Monstrous Crimes of Indonesian Reactionaries in Disrupting Relations Between China and Indonesia

AFTER carrying out a series of savage anti-China atrocities, the Indonesian fascist military clique headed by Suharto and Nasution has flagrantly demanded that China close its Embassy and Consulates in Indonesia and withdraw all the personnel of the Embassy and Consulates. The Chinese Government has issued a stern statement strongly denouncing the anti-China acts of the reactionary Indonesian Government and has decided to temporarily close the Chinese Embassy and Consulates and withdraw all their personnel from Indonesia. The Chinese people express the greatest indignation at and lodge the strongest protest against the monstrous crimes of the Indonesian reactionaries in disrupting the relations between the two countries! The Indonesian reactionaries have gone to the extreme in their rabid attacks on China. Yet they have made the false countercharge against China of having "consciously worsened the relations" between the two countries. They will never succeed in their attempt to whitewash themselves by fabricating shameless lies! The reactionary Indonesian Government is solely responsible for the worsening of Sino-Indonesian relations to the present state. Since launching the counterrevolutionary coup in October 1965, the Indonesian fascist military clique has systematically and repeatedly whipped up anti-China and anti-Chinese waves. It has turned on its propaganda machine throughout the country to hurl vicious slanders, abuse and attacks against the People's Republic of China and the Chinese people's most respected and beloved great leader, Chairman Mao. It has called out large numbers of armed troops and police and hooligans to make as many as 43 savage attacks on the Chinese missions, in which some 70 Chinese diplomatic personnel have been brutally beaten or wounded by gun-fire. It has illegally occupied the office buildings and living quarters of the Chinese missions and wantonly infringed upon their diplomatic privileges. It has subjected the broad masses of patriotic Chinese nationals to inhuman racist persecutions, burnt down their houses, plundered their property and smashed up their shops. It has clapped tens of thousands of overseas Chinese in concentration camps and prisons, and many of them have been ruthlessly killed. The reactionary Indonesian Government has wantonly trampled on the elementary norms of international relations and committed such fascist atrocities as have been seldom known in the annals of international relations. Since it has incurred such heavy debts of blood and perpetrated so many crimes, how can it possibly deny any of them? Moreover, the reactionary Indonesian Government has been openly colluding with the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang, a political corpse long discarded by the Chinese people. It has made frequent contacts with officials of this gang and blustered that it wanted to "recognize" it. This is a grave political provocation against the 700 million Chinese people and is iron-clad evidence of the deliberate disruption of Sino-Indonesian relations. That the Indonesian reactionaries headed by Suharto and Nasution should be rabidly opposing China and disrupting Sino-Indonesian relations is decided by their reactionary class nature. It is the inevitable result of the counter-revolutionary policies of national betrayal, despotism and opposition to communism and the people — policies that have been followed by this handful of fascist militarists. This fascist military clique is the general representative of Indonesia's feudal landlord class and bureaucrat-comprador bourgeoisie. It is the most decadent, most ruthless and most reactionary force and is the hangman of the revolutionary people. Immediately after it seized power, it has revelled in bloodshed throughout the country of the thousands of islands by carrying out wholesale arrests and massacre. It has plunged the Indonesian people into an abyss of suffering by cruelly exploiting and unscrupulously plundering them. In order to divert the attention of the people at home, the reactionary Indonesian Government has resorted to anti-China and anti-Chinese activities. This fascist military clique is a gang of out-and-out traitors, faithful lackeys fostered by U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism. Their fascist regime itself was established through the counter-revolutionary military coup master-minded by U.S. imperialism. No sooner had they come to power than they began to sell out Indonesia's independence and sovereignty wholesale and bog for dollars and rubles from U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism. As they have been ever more eager to sell themselves to U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism, they are bound to serve as their pawn in the anti-China campaign. The present increasingly rabid anti-China campaign of the Indonesian reactionaries is stage-managed by U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism and is part of the anti-China wave they have recently stirred up in Asia. The more rampantly the reactionary Indonesian Government opposes China, the more vigorously U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism aid and abet it. U.S. imperialism has already promised to grant the Indonesian reactionaries a loan of 80 million dollars this year. Soviet revisionism has also agreed to allow them postpone the repayment of the huge loan of 1,200 million dollars and the interest payable on it. U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism have also continually provided them with military "aid." The Indonesian reactionaries have disrupted diplomatic relations between China and Indonesia to meet the needs cf U.S. imperialism and Soviet revisionism. The Indonesian fascist regime which is based on sanguinary rule is extremely unstable. At home, it faces grave political and economic crises and is beset with difficulties. Like one silting on a volcano, it is living in constant fear of its own destruction. For existence, it depends entirely on U.S. imperialist and Soviet revisionist backing; and for its own encouragement it does everything possible to fraternize with the most corrupt counter-revolutionary scum such as the Rahman clique of "Malaysia" and the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang in Taiwan. It mortally fears revolutionary China and regards it as a thorn in its flesh. Therefore it has deliberately disrupted diplomatic relations between China and Indonesia. This is precisely a reflection of its weakness. The suspension of Sino-Indonesian diplomatic relations by the Indonesian reactionaries does not harm the People's Republic of China in the slightest, nor can it shut out the radiance of Mao Tse-tung's thought or undermine the great and militant friendship between the Chinese and Indonesian peoples. The peoples of the two countries have supported and encouraged each other in the protracted struggles against imperialism and colonialism. Guided by the great thought of Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese people have consistently given active support to the Indonesian people in their anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist struggle. Ail the diplomatic personnel in the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia have, in accordance with the teachings of the great leader Chairman Mao, made positive contributions in supporting the Indonesian people's revolutionary struggle and in strengthening the militant friendship between the two peoples. The Indonesian reactionaries' scheme to sabotage the traditional friendship between the Chinese and Indonesian peoples will never succeed. Accounts will be thoroughly settled with the Indonesian reactionaries for their monstrous crimes against the Indonesian and Chinese peoples! The masses of patriotic Chinese nationals in Indonesia are fine sons and daughters of the Chinese nation and are kith and kin of the Chinese people. They have lived in friendship with the Indonesian people for ages and have shared weal and woe and fought shoulder to shoulder with them against imperialist aggression. To safeguard the dignity of their fatherland, their legitimate rights and the friendship between the Chinese and Indonesian peoples, the patriotic Chinese nationals have waged courageous and unyielding struggles against the reactionary Indonesian Government. Many of them have written epic chapters with their lives and blood. Their struggles are just. They enjoy the support and sympathy of the people of Indonesia and the rest of the world, and they have the solid backing of their great socialist motherland. The Chinese Government has solemnly declared: Despite the disruption of the relations between the two countries by the reactionary Indonesian Government, the Chinese Government and people will continue to lake all necessary and possible measures to protect the proper rights and interests of the overseas Chinese. We are convinced that the masses of patriotic overseas Chinese will hold still higher the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, unite still more closely with the Indonesian people and struggle to the end to smash the racist persecution perpetrated by the reactionary Indonesian regime. Our great leader Chairman Mao said: "The unbridled violence of all the forces of darkness, whether domestic or foreign, has brought disaster to our nation; but this very violence indicates that while the forces of darkness still have some strength left, they ace already in their death throes, and that the people are gradually approaching victory." The crimes of persecution perpetrated by the Indonesian reactionaries against the Indonesian people will surely spur the latter on to make revolution on a more extensive and violent scale, thereby hastening the approach of an upsurge in this revolution. The Indonesian people who have a glorious revolutionary tradition are now regrouping their forces and unfolding new battles. From the lessons they have learnt at the cost of blood, they have come to a profound understanding of the incontrovertible truth taught by the great leader Chairman Mao that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and are determined to follow the road of the Chinese revolution. We firmly believe that whatever difficulties and twists and turns the Indonesian people may meet on their road of advance, the tide of revolution is irresistible. Darkness will end sooner or later, and the dawn is ahead. The bright sun will shine all over Indonesia and final victory will belong to the heroic Indonesian people!